Dont get me wrong, the stories they cover and the killers they talk about are terrifying.
Its all so wild to me and I cant wrap my brain around it.
I knew Ted Bundy was a notorious serial killer but I didnt really know the details of it all.
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But let me tell you, its sickening.
Ted Bundy started hurting women at a young age.
According to the people who knew him at a young age, he liked to scare people.
He wasnt really good with people.
He enjoyed lying to people.
He didnt have a lot of friends in high school.
No one ever really got close to him.
Nearly everything he talked about in the taped interviews in this docuseries were lies.
Twisted versions of the truth, if you will.
He said whatever he thought would benefit him and keep him out of trouble.
But at the same time…he wasreallygood with people.
He was the king of manipulation.
All of his victims fell for his charm.
No other inmate at the prison had access to the library.
He was a smooth talker.
He was just so charismatic.
Everyone fell for it.
He becameobsessedwith his first girlfriend.
Somehow, he managed to get a girlfriend and Diane Edwards was her name.
They were completely different people so how they managed to have a relationship was something Ted couldnt fully believe.
He feared losing her, so he claimed.
Years after their breakup (she dumped him!
), he was still obsessed with her…but not in the way he had been before.
She had rejected and embarrassed him and he had been hurt.
But they rekindled their relationship; to her, that meant something more (marriage!)
and to him, it was a manipulative tactic.
He became very cold and mean towards her.
Part 2 of their relationship was just him wanting revenge.
He escaped from prison twice.
Some time had passed and his whereabouts were unknown.
When theyfinallycaught him and put him back in prison, he managed to escape again.
This time, with the help of the books he had taken from the library.
He couldnt feel empathy or love.
Are we surprised by this?
He murdered over 30 women.
Clearly he had no feelings.
Just a day or so before his execution, he confessed to everything.
He also revealed his gruesome secret: necrophilia.
Yeah, he had sex with the corpses.
Unfortunately, more than half of the bodies have never been found.
Everything about him was unnerving: his looks, his personality, his character.
What scared me the most about this true crime docuseries was the footage of Ted Bundy being himself.
It was the way he would stand in the courtroom with dead eyes.
It was the way he would look into the camera and just smile.
